Note post 31 — mother’s status doesn’t matter if you are a strict constructionist regarding original intent.
Can one be an originalist and modernize to make mother’s status equal to husband’s? Some think so ... but ...
Only those who have rock-solid eligibility should be the ones to run in the first place. Even the courts, whichever way they rule, fail to command public respect.
“Can one be an originalist and modernize to make mother’s status equal to husband’s?”
Would a passionate Judeo-Christian suddenly ‘forget’ the extreme importance that was given to FATHERS, all throughout the Bible, when establishing the lineage of the children?